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Is Gordon Brown The British Nixon?
When Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as the United Kingdom's Prime Minister just a few years ago, he enjoyed an somewhat extended honeymoon with the British press and public. There was some degree of sympathy for the Scottish politician because it was well-known why...
Sinking His Teeth Into A New Role
This November, Michael Sheen, whose performance as David Frost in Frost/Nixon impressed critics and audiences both onstage and on film, will undertake a somewhat different part - the leader of the Volturi vampire clan in New Moon, the sequel to the massive box-office...
Green Eggs And The White House
Ever since Easter Monday 1878, when Rutherford B. Hayes opened the White House grounds to children for an egg roll, the White House has observed this springtime tradition. The Washington Times' Mark Silva reported on plans for this year's event: Now they've thought...
Annals Of The Obama Administration
The President and First Lady leave St. John's Church after Easter Sunday services this morning. The First Family attended Easter Sunday services at St. John's Episcopal Church ---"the President's ---and Presidents'--- church"--- just across the street (and over...
Bow Wow
Bo, the FPOTUS (First Pooch Of The United States), is clearly going to thrive in Washington --- he already has his own White House website. The hypoallergenic puppy is already a savvy pol --- having covered bases from the Kennedys to the animal shelter advocates (via...
Don’t Forget Winona…Kingman….Barstow…
Last month I wrote about a recent appearance that Ed Nixon, the younger brother of the 37th President, made to promote his new book The Nixons: A Family Portrait, during which he described how the sight of Meteor Crater in Arizona, in the course of a trip he made with...
Paging The Hardball Desk
At the website of the magazine Foreign Policy, David J. Rothkopf, a Washington-based consultant and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has written about "Five Books That Haven't Been Written Yet" (but, he continues, "ought to be")....
Speak Softly And Carry A Big Schtick
My wife and I have five wonderful grandchildren – four boys and a girl. We await the arrival of another grandson in a few weeks. Dealing with our children’s children is vastly different than what it was like raising our own – especially in the area of discipline. As...
“But What’s Puzzling You Is The Nature Of My Game”
This week, unsurprisingly given the area's strongly liberal electorate, Cook County (Illinois) Commissioner Mike Quigley defeated GOP nominee Rosanna Pulido, by a 69-to-24 percent difference, and was elected to the Fifth Congressional District seat that Rahm Emanuel...
HM & POTUS
Today's Daily Telegraph runs a photo gallery of Queen Elizabeth with every POTUS who served during her reign (with the exception of LBJ). RN with EIIR at Chequers on 3 October 1970